[General] PHP Framework for Mobile-Friendly Sites

Ahmad Al-Ibrahim ahmad at koutbo6.com
Tue Jan 12 01:03:59 +03 2010


Majed, web frameworks has nothing to do with HTML generation, you can
place your own html tags in your templates, I highly recommend using
Django and Python instead of PHP.

Regards,

Ahmad Al-Ibrahim

Majed B. wrote:
> Bashar, according to W3C, it clearly said to use STRICT HTML 4.0.
> 
> I was actually surprised because strict html 4.0 is quite limiting
> (<span> is not allowed, autocomplete is not allowed either for
> example).
> 
> And as I wanted to alleviate the overhead of worrying about
> model-view-code intermixing, I see that frameworks are competing on
> which to abuse the most modern features of desktop browsers.
> 
> I'll keep poking around but if I can't find something useful in a few
> days, I'll be compelled to cook my own solution, which I know will
> still be somewhat messy :/
> 
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:28 PM, bashar abdullah
> <bashar.abdullah at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> That's good move as in Kuwait 99% of the time, the mobile is ignored. There
>> are some commercial apps I heard of for converting and trimming down sites,
>> but I doubt they're so reliable, and more importantly, are expensive.
>> Question though. Is your target market all phones? Right now, it's most of
>> the time good to support iPhone, BB, and Android, as these are the majority
>> who use the web on their phone, and also have good XHTML support.
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Majed B. <majedb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> I'm building a website to provide data viewable from mobile phones. I
>>> started writing the PHP code from scratch, but things have started
>>> tangling and get messy as the view is getting too bound to the logic &
>>> data.
>>>
>>> I was looking at using one of the many PHP frameworks, but where they
>>> tout AJAX support and all that, I'm looking for a minimalistic
>>> approach and make sure that the site is fully functional on all
>>> phones.
>>>
>>> According to the W3C, mobile-friendly sites should be developed using
>>> Strict HTML 4.0.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any suggestions? Whether a framework or a Do It
>>> Yourself (DIY) approach.
>>> --
>>>       Majed B.
>>>
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